Barry Whyte is a 'Master Inventor' working in the Systems & Technology Group based in IBM Hursley, UK. Barry primarly works on the IBM SAN Volume Controller and Storwize family of virtual disk systems. Barry graduated from The University of Glasgow in 1996 with a B.Sc (Hons) in Computing Science. In his 18 years at IBM he has also worked on the successful Serial Storage Architecture (SSA) and the IBM DS8000 range. Barry joined the SVC development team soon after its inception and has held many positions before taking on his current role as performance architect. Outside of work, Barry enjoys playing golf and all things to do with Rotary Engines. All posts on this blog are (c) Copyright International Business Machines 2014 - reproduction without prior approval is prohibited.

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Hi all, Happy New Year (are we almost in February already!)
This is just a quick heads up, the next UK based SVC, Storwize family User Group meeting is planned for the 8th of May 2013. To register, see here :... [Continue Reading]

One of the internal, and IBM Business Partner mailing groups I subscribe and participate in ( Hi to all on Diskcore ) recently debated :
Want to know whether IBM V3700 are true symmetric active active controllers.
A response was made, but also asked :
Can you define... [Continue Reading]

For the last few years we have often talked about 'flexible hardware' options for SVC. While we have offered the internal SAS HBA and SSD attachment within the nodes, and a 10Gbit iSCSI/FCoE capable upgrade, we've never quite made it to true flexible hardware, with respect to Fibre... [Continue Reading]

Your Personal Invitation to the SVC and Storwize V7000 User Group Meeting
This is an unrivalled opportunity for you to meet with and talk to IBM’s leading SVC and IBM Storwize V7000 subject matter experts. Our team will formally present their views on the strategic directions of SVC and... [Continue Reading]

I was recently interview by Antony Ashead at ComputerWeekly to fill in some details behind IBM's recent FlashSystem announcements. To see Antony's write up, check out his article :
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Hi all, I'd like to introduce Jon Tate who has been added as a co-author to my blog. Jon is known to the team here as "Mr IBM Redbooks" - and will be posting about new publications, any new residencies that are available etc, specifically related to storage and networking.
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We are delighted to announce an exciting addition to the distribution channel of IBM Redbooks – now available at the Apple iBookstore is the ability to download, for free, (I probably should add some disclaimer about network charges may apply so this is it!) selected books. Not all books... [Continue Reading]

Just a quick one - while having a scan through IBM's new(ish) ability to review products on its main website, I found this :
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/software/virtualization/svc/reviews.html
It did make me chukkle... its cetainly no Invista either - and... [Continue Reading]

Less than two weeks to go before the start of the IBM Edge 2013 conference in Las Vegas. I've finally finished my presentations for the two main sessions I am hosting as part of the Virtualization track
Monday 10th
9:30am
Session 1610
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It is hard to look anywhere these days without seeing Flash being used. I think the word that marketing like to use, unless it has fallen out of favour is "pervasive". Mind you in the hands of some people it is definitely moving from "pervasive" to "invasive" but... [Continue Reading]

I know its been a long time since I posted the first to parts in my "optimal performance" series, and I've been promising parts 3 and 4 for some time, but they are more or less written - well the basic information has been distilled into a presentation...
The world... [Continue Reading]

A quick update from IBM Edge2013 at the Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, and we are very pleased to have launched, announced, published as a draft paper the results of work that we have been doing with a company called Bridgeworks, and their SANSlide product. They are here at Edge and we were able to fine... [Continue Reading]

Just over a week or so ago we completed the ITSO Redbook residency to create a book based on the SAN Volume Controller and the IBM FlashSystem 820. Now, normally we like to get these things out very quickly and the team, Danny Bryant, Christian Burns, Joao Marcos Leite, and Denis Senin worked very... [Continue Reading]

“To err is human; to forgive, divine.” Alexander Pope.
Well we are mixing up poetry and Star Wars here today (or tomorrow, if it is already tomorrow where you are), and finish it off with a cryptic message.
Anyway, let's cut to the chase here: a long time ago, in an IBM... [Continue Reading]